The contents of this blog are mostly from my Friendster account, I transferred everything here just in case F.S. dies.... Ha ha! Those w/o dates on the title are recent ones. So read on and enjoy!
Sunday, January 15, 2012
I don't have any creative juices flowing in my system these past few months (actually I forgot I had this blog)... So I think I'll just share compilations of quotes which I've been writing in my journal every week. I have been a very big fan of quotes since I was in high school, those I can relate to, those that can fully express my feelings.
The past few months have been varying quite a bit, I went to Culinary School and have been so worked up on it that I didn't have time to think of anything but paperwork and stuff. Oh well, cooking has been a passion ever since I learned my very first scrambled eggs. I love cooking for someone, having the thought of making a dish for someone and that it would make them happy is just so rewarding. Going to a Culinary School has been a dream come true. Basically, I realized what I was going to study. And it was beautiful. It was my first ever epiphany, and I use that term very carefully. What happened was pure magic, and now, I know what I need to do. So I’m pursuing this new direction in complete confidence that I’m going to make it work. Because finally I found what I really love doing.
Here are some, enjoy! Hope all is doing well! :)
That was a day I came face to face with my freak. A frightening woman whose fear ate her sanity. The truth is, it isn't just the men. It's all of us, anyone whose single in Manhattan gets a little freaked out from time to time. But we keep trying, because you have to figure, if the world's fattest twins can find love, there's hope for all of us. Somewhere out there is another little freak, who will love us, understand us and kiss our three heads and make it all better and in the mean time, we always have Manhattan.
-Carrie Bradshaw (SATC Season 3, Episode 3)
If you can find a path without obstacles. It probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark
Don't depend too much on anyone in this world... It is because even your own shadow leaves you when you're in darkness. -Anonymous
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who would never take advantage of you. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone, because what if you learn that you need love and you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever.
-Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 22 "Unaccompanied Minor"
Adrift and at Peace
The first 24 hours after surgery are critical, every breath you take, every fluid you make, is meticulously recorded and analyzed, celebrated, and mourned. But what about the next 24 hours? What happens when that first day turns to two, and weeks turn into months? What happens when the immediate danger has passed, when the machines are disconnected, and the teams of doctors and nurses are gone? Surgery is when you get saved, but post-op, after surgery, is when you heal. But, what if you don't?
The goal of any surgery is total recovery, to come out better than you were before. Some patients heal quickly and feel immediate relief, for others, the healing happens gradually and it's not until months or even years later that you realize you don't hurt anymore. So the challenge after any surgery is to be patient. But if you can make it through the first weeks and months, if you believe the feeling is possible, then you can get your life back...but that's a big IF.
-Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 10 "Adrift and at Peace"
With You I'm Born Again
Every seven years, like snakes in our own way, we shed our skin... biologically we're brand new people. We may look the same, we probably do... but change isn't visible, at least not most of us. But we're all changed completely, forever... When we say things like "People don't change", it drives scientists crazy because change is LITERALLY the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing... morphing, merging, growing, dying... it's the way people try NOT to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting to be what they are, the way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones, the way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication -- that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us... it can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it... it can feel like pure adrenaline, like at any moment we can have another chance at life, like at any moment... we can be born all over again.
- Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 1 "With You I'm Born Again"
The other day I read a friends status in FB craving for Kimchi Fried Rice... then I had a light bulb moment, got up off my bed and searched for a recipe online. Since we only have a small amount of Kimchi left in the fridge, I grabbed every left over we had and cooked my own version of Kimchi Fried Rice. Forgive me for the bad quality of the photo, we're in a hurry to take photos because we got way too excited to eat.
Kimchi Fried Rice out of scrap:
My left over Crispy Chicken Skin
My left over super Crispy Honey Cured Bacon, crisp it up on its own fat
Chicken Longganisa
About a teaspoon of Garlic Powder
Kimchi, chopped (add its juice if you want it really spicy)
A cup of Cooked Rice
Dried Onion Powder
Pinch of Dried Basil leaves
Salt
Pepper
Butter/Oil (I like my fried rice cooked in butter)
2 Eggs
Of course my ever loyal fan, my cousin Aya loved it. You can add the juice from the kimchi jar if you want it spicy enough, try not to overdo it as it may taste a bit odd. I like mine mild though.
Okay! So my cousin and I have the sweetest teeth evurrrr! Every time we're together we just munch on sweets, anything we could get our hands on. Since she'd been depressed and is going through a very rough patch these past few days, she asked me to bake her my Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies... I found a recipe of Malted Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies cookies online but I don't know where I could find Malted Milk Powder here in the Philippines
so I opted to use a product which has Malt in it, I chose Milo which brings more flavor.
Instead of a bag of chocolate chips I mixed one bag of Flat Tops
and half a bag of unsweetened chocolate chips (I tend to always add some tweaks on the recipes I come across, I just like to always add some of me, and a bit of uniqueness in what I cook/bake.) I let my cousin measure the ingredients and a friend (JV) helped in mixing the batter.
Here's the Recipe:
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 Sticks) Unsalted Butter Softened
1/2 cups Golden Brown Sugar
1/2 cups Sugar
2 whole Eggs
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 cups All-purpose Flour
1-¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
1-¼ teaspoon Salt
½ cups (rounded) Milo Powder
1 bag (12 Ounce) Milk Chocolate Chips
1 bag Flat Tops
Preparation Instructions:Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream butter, then add both sugars and cream until fluffy. Add eggs and beat slightly, then add vanilla and beat until combined. Add Milo powder and beat until combined.
Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to butter mixture, beating gently until just combined.
Add chocolate chips and Flat Tops and stir in gently.
Drop by teaspoonfuls (or use a cookie scoop) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Bake less if you want chewy cookies; more if you want crispy cookies.
I doubled the ingredients so we can make tons and we cut the sugar in half so it won't get too sweet because the chocolate powder is already sweet. We started at around 1pm and were done in about 8pm.... we've made a hundred plus cookies plus one big penis shaped cookie for my sister. :))
Okay so it's the fourth day since I've been introduced to this song by my cousin Aya who recently broke up with her boyfriend of 3 years, and it hasn't stopped playing in my head since then. The message of this song speaks to everyone who's gotten their heart broken, I've been there and I can really, really relate to it, so yes I love this song. I know i'm not updated with new songs, ha ha! But this one's stuck in my head same as Someone Like You by Adele. I love Maddi Jane's version, I don't know why but for me she sang it better then Christina Perri. It is now included in one of my shower songs. Catch ya later guys, I'm gonna be baking my famous cookies today for my cousin so we can listen to this while munching our hearts out. Time to belt this one out in the shower! Good Day! ^_^
Listening to her voice is bliss... Her songs... I love! If I post every song I loved on Facebook i'll be flooding my friends' News Feeds so i'll be posting everything here. <3
I'd Do It All Again
By: Corinne Bailey Rae
Ooh, you're searching for something I know, wont make you happy
Ooh, you're thirsting for something I know, wont make you happy
Ooh, you did it all again, you broke another skin
Its hard to believe this time, hard to believe
That my heart, my hearts an open door...
You got all you came for, baby
So weary, someone to love is bigger than your prides worth
It's bigger than the pain you got for it hurts
And out runs all of the sadness
Its terrifying, life, through the darkness
And I'd do it all again, I'd do it all again
I'd do it all again, I'd do it all again
You try sometimes but it won't stop
You got my heart and my heads lost, ooh yeah
I've been burning down these candles for love, for love
So weary, someone to love is bigger than your pride
Ooh, someone to love, mmm, someone to love
Someone to love
Ooh, you're searching for something I know, wont make you happy
Ooh
Closer
I don't want to give you up
I don't want to hold you up
I don't want ambiguous
I just know that I've had enough
I want you to travel with me
Let loose and let your mind go free...Show you things that you've never seen
You just go to go with me
Ohhh
Your love is so good that I want to show you
Don't make me responsible, for something you that can't find
Ohhh
Your loving is so good, so good, the closer
I want it, I want it
Into me
I want it, I want it,
Leave it here
I want to get closer to you baby
Experience...
I want it, I want it
Generous...
Lay down what's impeding you
'Cause I want to get closer to you
I don't want to give you up
I'm tired of the pull and push
I"m tired of the making love
Don't you feel like you've had enough
I want you to journey with me, explore all the innocence
I don't mind us to build tension but we've got to move in the same direction
You just got to go with me...
Trouble Sleeping
It's late and I'm feeling so tired
Having trouble sleeping.
This constant compromise
Between thinking and breathing.
Could it be I'm suffering
Because I'm never give in?
Won't say that I'm falling in love
Tell me I don't seem myself
Couldn't I blame something else?
Just don't say I'm falling in love
Some kind of therapy
Is all I need
Please believe me
Some instant remedy
That can cure me completely
Could it be that I'm suffering
Because I'll never give in?
Won't say that I'm falling in love
Tell me I don't seem myself
Couldn't I blame something else?
Just don't say I'm falling in love
'cause I've been there before and it's not enough
So nobody say it
Don't even say it
I've got my eyes shut
Won't look, oh
No, I'm not in love
Could it be I'm suffering
Because I'll never give in?
I'm falling love
Tell me I don't seem myself good enough for something else
Just don't say I'm falling in love
Falling in love
Just don't say I'm falling in love
Oh, yeah
Falling love ooh
Oh, oh, don't say that I'm falling in love, don't say that, oh
I came across Angelicopter's blog a few months back when I used to always listen to Good Times with Mo and I found this song which I want to be played on my wedding day. This kind of song are the ones that'll definitely make you cry while walking down the aisle and this is the song that you would really want to dedicate to someone you really love so much, something you would want to listen to 'til you grow old... together. I used to listen to this song on YouTube, the video Chopper took the day Johnoy Danao went to Magic 89.9's Studio but now it has an official video and I love that the video's too real, no models, no celebrities, it doesn't look at all scripted, just normal couples in love and again I kept clicking on the replay button nonstop. This just makes you wanna float in love and it's the type to make you WANT to fall in love. I swear I'm making this my theme song when the right man comes along. Kudos Johnoy! :)
Siiiigh..... This song has been on loop for 3 hours now. I love Adele's voice and ooh the message of the song just smack me right on the face. Now I have mascara all over my face. :'( Johnoy Danao's cover also did justice to Adele's song.. Love 'em both. <3
"Someone Like You"
By: Adele
I heard
That you're settled down
That you
Found a girl
And you're
Married now
I heard
That your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things
I didn't give to you
Old friend
Why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back
Or hide from the light
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over
Never mind
I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
"Don't forget me," I begged
"I'll remember," you said
"Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead."
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead,
Yeah.
You know how the time flies
Only yesterday
It was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise
Of our glory days
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
